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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> The person who determines what the end result should look like. Not necessarily. In many companies 'project manager' is just the techie name of what used to be called a 'secretary'.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> focusing on making actual useful products A 'product' is something you sell to clients. Google's only product is advertising, and they don't need to focus on making better advertising because they are a monopoly. Ev
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> ...they have miscalculated Yes, if by 'miscalculated' you mean 'lied'. Driverless train technology has existed for decades, and is battle-tested in production. Yet no place uses driverless trains today. Figure out w
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> This seems like a poorly thought out plan, and unnecessary at that. Welcome to Google Future (c). Enjoy your stay.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> The product management team was replaced with imbeciles Gmail is not Google's product. A product is something you sell. (Or something that facilitates making sales.) Gmail is just a high-tech clickbait and data gathering honeypot.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> He has an entire section on "Post-REST: Persistent connections" which you seem to have missed. That section is really stupid. He goes on about HTTP/2 and QUIC while seemingly being ignorant of HTTP/1.1's e
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Google's only product is online advertising, the only kind of advertising that matters in the 21st century. This is a big deal because they can abuse their advertising clout for evil purposes. (E.g., advertise Chrome but put out a proh
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Is it time to rewrite the operating system in Rust? No. Next question, please.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> HTTP 1.1 has drawbacks which we've been living with for far too long. No it doesn't. Don't fix what's not broke, and doubly so if the only motivation for the change is "well, Megacorp (c) says it's the bee
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Read what I said again. Javascript is a language that will be executed using several threads when run in the browser environment. However, that isn't the point. The point is that multiple Javascript scripts will be executing concurrent
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Money is about imbuing items - some of which may be intangible - with power and manna People will imbue all sorts of things with power and manna. (Video game highscores, or clothes, or the food you eat, etc. , etc.) Money is not specia
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> asynchronicity and parallelism (threads) are two entirely different concepts They are. However, in the browser resources (such as scripts) will be loaded using multiple threads. Javascript will be executed on one thread at a time, but
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> I'm not sure how often you want to recover from such a state though. Pretty much always in real systems software. Imagine a multithreaded server that handles HTTP requests. A catastrophic invariant failure when handling one reques
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Javascript isn't single threaded. Callbacks happen asynchronously, and coupled with a synchronous DOM this means race condition central.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> I think most national currencies are based on religious-like beliefs and mass delusions to some extent. Lol, no. Four points: a) Money isn't value, money is a standard measuring yardstick for value. b) Since it's just a stand
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> so that we don't have to worry about hard-to-trace race conditions, etc Seems to me that something like 50% of clientside Javascript coding is "worrying about hard-to-trace race conditions", so maybe that's a featur
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
State of the art is pthreads and mutexes. The C++ and Rust wrappers for them are roughly equivalent. Rust has some nice features for handling ownership semantics, but they are not significantly better than those in C++. Meanwhile, Rust stil
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
A shallow learning curve and cute compiler messages are the least of your problems when doing C++-caliber software. The 'small, easy language for ignorant developers' niche certainly exists, but it's already taken by Go. Rust
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> On the server side, it seems like docker format has already won. No.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Another benefit is that getting to Venus is a lot cheaper than getting to Mars.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Good luck trying to be 'left alone' when you're literally at the mercy of an Earth government for the importation of the very air you breathe.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
No shit, Sherlock. Welcome to the 21st century.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> The speaker would simply have to point to a concrete algorithm that can be performed by a person with pencil and paper but not by a Turing machine (or vice versa). No, this is a circular definition. We define an "algorithm" a
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Last I checked (which was a year or more ago), 64-bit GC for LuaJIT is an experimental and buggy feature. Do people actually use it in production? Since which version of LuaJIT?
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Where's the "don't allocate 8 gigabytes and crash the system" feature? (Yeah Slack, I'm looking at you.)
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Does this still only support 2 Gb of RAM? ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35155444/why-is-luajits-... )
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Smart contracts aren't for enforcing law, they're for making notary and escrow work cheaper and more automatic. The current costs for this are ridiculous. That said, nobody actually cares for doing anything useful with blockchain
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
What if somebody hacks into your bank and steals your escrow account? Presumably, in both cases the solution is the same -- law enforcement and a lawsuit. The goal isn't some perfectly perfect decentralized system, the goal is somethin
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Safari > modern
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Google employs 70000 people, when in fact they could do what they do with just 700. (If they bothered to actually hire the top 1% of developers.) Operating with 1% of peak efficiency seems insane, until you understand that Google doesn&#x

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